When you know something, it is completely verifiable through direct experience or scientific method. Yet most of us believe in things that may not necessarily be true or real. There was a time when people believed that the Earth was flat, there was a time when people believed that this earth was the centre of the universe and that the sun rotated

Philosophy is something that we all invent and use to explain our lives and to justify our actions. It is putting together words to help us make sense of our lives and with those words, to explain and justify our existence thereby shaping our future.

Western philosophy is about outward looking based on the idea that the world we see around us is real and

These words are used in books about Yoga, Buddhism and Hinduism and they are often a challenge to understand. These words like English sometimes have multiple meanings which I don’t go into, but I hope this page is a useful guide.

Renowned as a land of colour, the home to Yoga and Buddhism, and a curious range of sciences but ostracised as being third world with unacceptable levels of poverty and crime, yet India has a long heritage that few appreciate.

Most people associate the idea of Hinduism with India and the pantheon of gods and goddesses as depicted in this image to the right. But this is only part of the story that stretches back for tens of thousands of years.

There is no quick or five-minute description that can convey much of this subject, but what is referred to as

Deciding what is real or what is true and what is false is a challenge that should not be undertaken lightly because the yogis and Buddha’s who have walked this earth before us have testified that everything is an illusion. Therefore there is no absolute reality to be found in this world and asking the question what is ultimately true or false

The word yoga as most people know means unity, but no one can possibly understand the word unity until that unity has been experienced. Therefore until one has achieved the unity of being connected to our inherent nature, yoga cannot be understood and the word is only used in reference to all the methodologies that may or may